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Publications
Chapters in books
Caird, S. (1994) “Sources Of Technological Innovative Ideas and their Significance for Commercial Outcomes in Small Companies” In New Technology-Based Firms In The 1990’s Edited by R. Oakey. London: Paul Chapman.
Caird, S. (2006) General Measure of Enterprising Tendency Version 2 (GET2), Appendix in T. Mazzarol Entrepreneurship and Innovation Australia: Tilde University Press. May.
Roy, R, Caird, S. and Potter, S. (2007) “People Centred Eco-design: Consumer adoption and use of low and zero carbon products and systems”, Chapter 3 in Murphy, J. (ed.) Governing technology for sustainability, London: Earthscan, pp. 41-62 ISBN 978-1-84407-345-0.
Caird, S and Roy, R. (2010) ‘Yes in my back yard. UK householders pioneering microgeneration technologies’ In Chapter 18 Public Engagement with Renewable Energy Edited by P. Devine-Wright, P. (ed.) Earthscan. Submitted 14 Sept 2009. in press
Refereed journal articles
Caird, S. (1990) “What Does It Mean To Be Enterprising?” British Journal Of Management, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 137-147.
Caird, S. (1990) “Enterprise Education: The Need for Differentiation” British Journal Of Education And Work, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 47-57.
Caird, S. (1991) “Testing Enterprising Tendency In Occupational Groups”, British Journal Of Management, Volume 2, pp. 177-186.
Caird, S. (1991) “Self Assessments On Enterprise Training Courses”, British Journal Of Education And Work, Volume 4, No. 3, pp. 63-80.
Caird, S. (1991) “Research On The Enterprising Tendency Of Occupational Groups” International Journal Of Small Business, Vol 9, No. 4, pp. 75-82.
Caird, S. (1992) “How Should Innovation Be Supported?: The Views Of Innovators”, Journal Of General Management, Volume 18, Winter 1992, pp. 68-92
Caird, S. (1993) “How Important Is The Innovator For The Commercial Success Of Innovative Products In SME’s ?” Technovation Vol.14. No.2, 1994
Caird. S, Roy, R., and Wield, D. (1994) “Problems Experienced By Engineers On Environmental Product Development Projects” Technology Analysis And Strategic Management Vol. 6 No 2, pp. 177-188.
Caird, S., Roy, R. and Wield, D. (1997) “Team Approaches To Developing Innovative Products and Processes” International Journal of Innovation Management Vol.1. No.4. Dec, pp. 333-354
Roy, R. and Caird, S. (2001) “Environmental Actions to Reduce Household Ecological Footprints” International Journal of Environmental Education And Information, Vol.20. No.4. Oct, pp. 315-333.
Crompton, S., Roy, R. and Caird, S. (2002) “Household Ecological Footprinting For Active Distance Learning And Challenge Of Personal Lifestyles” International Journal of Sustainability In Higher Education Vol.3. No.4. Dec., pp. 313-324.
Caird, S. and Roy, R. (2006) “Household Ecological Footprints -Demographics and Sustainability” Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management
Vol. 8, No. 4 December,pp.407-429.
Caird, S. and Roy, R. (2008) User-Centred Improvements to Energy Efficiency Products and Renewable Energy Systems: Research on Household Adoption and Use, Paper for Special issue on user-centred innovation of International Journal of Innovation Management, Vol. 12, No. 3 (September)
Roy, R. and Caird, S. (2008) Design Improvements from users’ experiences of low and zero carbon technologies, Paper for special issue on Sustainability of International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 4 No. 4, October, pp. 357-370.
Caird, S., Roy, R. and Herring, H. (2008) Improving the energy performance of UK households. Results from surveys of consumer adoption and use of low- and zero- carbon technologies, Energy Efficiency Vol 1: June pp.149–166.
Professional journal articles
Caird, S. (1990) “Enterprise Competencies: An Agenda for Research.” Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol.14, No.7, pp. 3-9.
Caird, S. (1992) “Problems with The Identification Of Enterprise Competency with the Implications For Assessment And Development”, Management Education And Development, Vol 23, Part 1.
Caird, S. (1993) “What Do Psychological Tests Tell Us About Entrepreneurs?” Journal of Managerial Psychology, Volume 8, No. 3, pp. 11-20.
Caird, S. (1994) “How Do Award Winners Come Up With Innovative Ideas?” Creativity and Innovation Management Vol. 3. No.1 March, pp. 3-10.
Roy, R. and Caird, S. (2001) “Household Ecological Footprints - Moving Towards Sustainability?” Town & Country Planning Vol.70 No.10. Oct, pp. 277-279.
Herring, H., Roy, R. and Caird, S (2007) ‘Grey greens’ go solar? Consumer adoption and use of renewables’ Renew No. 167pp. 20-22.
Roy, R. and Caird, S. (2008) Why do householders adopt or reject energy efficiency and renewables? Feature article for Energy Action, 2008, No. 104, March, pp. 16-17.
Roy, R. and Caird, S. (2008) Who Adopts Micro-heating Technologies? Green Building, Autumn.
Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings
Crompton, S., Caird, S. and Roy, R. (2001) An environmental assessment activity to promote active distance learning and challenge of personal lifestyles and values, Paper for 6th International auDES Conference, ‘Bridging Minds and Markets. Emerging Issues in Environmental Education and Employment in Europe’, Venice, Italy, 5-7 April. (40%)
Roy, R. and Caird, S. (2006) ‘Designing low & zero carbon products and systems – adoption, effective use and innovation’, In Proceedings Sustainable Innovation 06 international conference, Chicago 23-24 October, Centre for Sustainable Design, University of the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK, pp. 216-224.
Herring, H., Caird, S. and Roy, R. (2007) Can consumers save energy? Results from surveys of consumer adoption and use of low and zero carbon technologies, In Proceedings European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy Summer Study 2007, ‘Saving energy – just do it!’ (La Colle sur Loup, Côte d’Azur, France, 4-5 June) Volume 4, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 1885-95.
Roy, R and Caird, S. (2007) Designing low and zero carbon products and systems: improvements based on consumers’ experience of adoption and use, International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED07), ‘Design for society: Knowledge, innovation and sustainability’, Paris, 28-30 August, (Executive summary in Conference Proceedings pp. 863-864 + full paper on CD-ROM).
Other Conference Papers
Caird, S. (1993) Sources Of Technological Innovative Ideas And Their Significance For Commercial Outcomes In Small Companies, Paper for Conference, ‘Technology- Based Firms in the 1990’s’ Manchester Business School, June 1993
Roy, R, Potter, S and Caird, S (2005) People Centred Eco-design: Factors influencing the adoption and use of low carbon products, buildings and systems, Invited paper for the ESRC Governance of Sustainable Technologies Network, University of Edinburgh, 22-23 March.
Technical Reports
Caird, S. (1989) Enterprise Competencies. Scottish Enterprise Foundation, Occasional Paper Series No. 65189.
Caird, S. (1989) An Initial Approach To Defining, Teaching And Assessing Enterprise Competencies. Scottish Enterprise Foundation, Working Paper Series No. 03/89.
Caird, S. (1992) Testing Enterprising Tendency In Occupational Groups. DUBS Occasional Paper, 9205, ISBN NO 1 85773 017 8 (Reprinted by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, from the original publication in the British Journal Of Management, Volume 2, pp. 177-186.)
Caird, S., Roy, R. and Wield, D.V. (1996) Team approaches to developing innovative products and processes: Executive Report, Centre for Technology Strategy, The Open University, Milton Keynes, May.
Caird, S. and Roy, R. with Potter, S. and Herring, H. (2007) Consumer adoption and use of household energy efficiency products Report DIG-09, Dec. 2007.
http://design.open.ac.uk/research/research_dig.htm http://design.open.ac.uk/research/documents/OURptEnergyEffyFinalDec07Cover.pdf
http://design.open.ac.uk/research/documents/OURptEnergyEffyExecSummFinalDec07.pdf
Caird, S. and Roy, R. with Potter, S. and Herring, H. (2007) Consumer adoption and use of household renewable energy technologies Report DIG-10, Dec. 2007
http://design.open.ac.uk/research/research_dig.htm http://design.open.ac.uk/research/documents/OURptRenewablesFinalDec07Cover.pdf
http://design.open.ac.uk/research/documents/OURptRenewablesExecSummFinalDec07.pdf
Roy, R., Caird, S. and Abelman J. (2008).Yes in my back yard! UK householders pioneering microgeneration heat, London: The Energy Saving Trust, June.
Caird, S. with Roy, R. and Potter, S. (2010) Heat Pump User Experiences, Behaviour, Perceptions and Satisfaction. Confidential Report by the Design Innovation Group, The Open University to The Energy Saving Trust, July, 54pp.
Other works
Caird, S. (1993) Book Review: Winning By Design by Walsh, V. Roy, R. Bruce, M. and Potter, S. Blackwell Business, 1992, British Journal of Management Vol. 4, pp. 275-279.
Roy, R and Caird, S. (2003) Footprints on the carpet http://www.changingclimate.org/content/articles/article/data/article_86 (Accessed 21/4/03)
Caird, S. and Roy, R. (2007) Views of energy efficiency professionals. Adoption of Low and Zero Carbon products and systems: How may eco-designs be improved to be more people-centered? NHER E-info Newsletter, May.
Roy, R and Caird, S. (2007) Memorandum submitted by the Design Innovation Group (CIT 09). House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee ‘Climate Change: the citizen’s agenda’ Eighth Report of Session 2006-2007 Volume 11. HC 88-11. Oral and Written Evidence Ordered by the House of Commons London: The Stationary Office Limited, 13 September 2007 pp. 413-418.
Potter and Caird (2010) Guide to Intellectual Property Rights in Transport Innovation U-STIR website http://u-stir.eu/docs/USTIRIPRadviceFinal2010-2.pdf
Caird, S. and Potter, S. (2010) From Invention to Innovation:
A Guide to Developing and Evaluating your Inventive Idea U-STIR website
http://www.u-stir.eu/index.phtml?id=2537&ID1=2537&sprache=en ]http://www.u-stir.eu/index.phtml?id=2537&id1=2537&sprache=en
Interactive Multi-Media and Knowledge Transfer
Caird, S. and Hallett, S. (2010) Website product, Innovation Rater - Open2-Innov8ion Tool –U-STIR Surface Transport Innovation http://www.u-stir.eu/index.phtml?ID1=2537&id=2639
Caird, S. (2007) Website product, ‘General Measure of Enterprising Tendency Test’ ‘www.get2test.net’.
Caird, S. (2006) Academic Transformation of course materials in XML programming for the Open Content Initiative OpenLearn (See examples in Section 4)
Caird, S. and Hallett, S. (2005) Website product, Eco-lifestyle Quiz for the environmental e-learning ‘Soil-Net’ web portal ‘www.soil-net.com’. (developed by Cranfield University and Norwich University College of the Arts, and funded by Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs).
Caird, S. and Hallett, S. (2005) Website product, ‘Postcards from the Future’.Collaboration with OU team linked to the 2005 OU/BBC Coast series open2.net ‘www.open2.net/survey/coast/postcards_interactive_embedded.html’.
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